Description

Meatless Monday or maybe Friday? Try spaghetti with olive oil and roasted garlic. Yum. What makes it even better? toasted pine nuts and Asiago cheese. Serve with garlic bread or Texas toast and a side salad.

Ingredients

• 1 whole garlic bulb, roasted
• 3/4 lb. thin spaghetti
• 1/3 c. good quality olive oil plus 2 T.
• pinch red pepper flakes
• 1/2 c. pine nuts
• heaping 1/3 c. fresh parsley, finely minced and measured after chopping
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• freshly squeezed juice of 1/2 lemon
• grated Asiago cheese

Steps

1. Cook pasta in well salted boiling water according to package directions until just al dente, about 6 minutes.
2. Heat several tablespoons of oil in a pan; toast pine nuts until golden brown. watching them carefully so that they don't burn. Remove; set aside.
3. Squeeze the roasted garlic out of each clove; roughly chop.